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#RedHand

Today is May 5th.
A National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+)

#Missing #Indigenous #redhand #lgbtq #mmiwg2s

This is not a past issue.
It is not rare.
It is not isolated.
It is a national crisis.
Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people face disproportionately high rates of violence, trafficking, and homicide.
In some regions, they are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than non-Indigenous women.
This is rooted in colonial systems that continue to devalue our lives—through racism, gendered violence, under-policing, over-incarceration, and government indifference.
This is why you should care:
• Because if it happened to your relative, you’d never stop fighting
• Because no one is disposable
• Because violence thrives where indifference exists
• Because love, safety, and justice should not be negotiable.
• Because truth demands more than awareness
This is about love.
Loving each other enough to speak out.
Loving our communities enough to protect them.
Loving this Land enough to confront the violence that stains it.
Ways you can help today and every day:
• Learn about the National Inquiry’s Final Report and the 231 Calls for Justice
• Read community-led reports like Red Women Rising
• Contact your MP. Demand implementation of the 231 Calls.
• Attend local vigils. Wear red. Light a candle. Say their names.
• Have conversations. Especially the hard ones. Especially at your kitchen table.
Above all—love one another fiercely. We are sacred. And we deserve to live without fear ❤️
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The red handprint represents the colonial violence that silences us.

Anonymous street art, La Rochelle, France, 2012 © acjab
#palestine #genocide #infanticide #gaza #freepalestine #redhand

Let's hope the Red Hand of Ulster is never featured on the national flag, however that flag might change - in a huge number of societies showing your palm in that way is really rude, and in others it's actually an obscene gesture. Might as well have a flag with "FUCK OFF" written across it! https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/01/22/republic-says-no-to-poppy-and-red-hand-of-ulster-voters-hostile-to-northern-symbols/
#RedHand #Flag #symbols

Speaking of which, #Unionists need to stop using the #RedHand as a symbol. The Red Hand is a very specifically #Gaelic symbol; for Anglos to use it is crass #CulturalAppropiation, and that's actual cultural appropriation, not the kind of bullshit that is stereotypical of Tumblr.